upper-air

This upper-air disturbance has been brewing for days, picking up lots of moisture over the Rockies and gathering speed over the western part of the state.

Starting from Scratch Susan Gilbert-Collins 2010

Along with an unusual upper-air pattern, the Washington, D.C., area “was exceedingly dry” during the summer of 1930, Michaels stated.

Think Progress » An Inconvenient Truth and An Intolerable Summer 2006

But Bill Gray, a Colorado State University professor of atmospheric science, has attributed the higher ocean temperatures to natural factors, such as seawater circulation shifts or upper-air currents that toss storms from side to side and steer them ashore.

Scientists Remain Divided Over Issue 2008

We compare the USHCN data with several surface and upper-air datasets and show that the effects of the various USHCN adjustments produce a significantly more positive, and likely spurious, trend in the USHCN data.

The 1930s are getting Colder « Climate Audit 2007

The void is believed to be due to proximity to South America and to the presence of an upper-air feature which creates wind shear.

Hurricanes 2007 « Climate Audit 2007

Neither the captain nor the staff sergeant had noticed that the upper-air analysis sent to them via facsimile from the U.S. Weather Bureau in Washington was wrong.

Storm Warning Nancy Mathis 2007

The physical model would be that low western Atlantic pressures are associated with a more-poleward seedling path, less upper-air subsidence and weaker trade winds = some warming of SST.

Bill Gray and the Atlantic Meridional Mode « Climate Audit 2007

On the morning of March 25, only five days after the initial tornado, Fawbush and Miller noted the same upper-air and surface patterns as March 20.

Storm Warning Nancy Mathis 2007

My gut guess is that the cat 4 and cat 5 storms have special upper-air features which improve the ventilation.

Curry's Comments on Klotzbach « Climate Audit 2006

Forecasted upper-air patterns will make it tough for any major hurricane to threaten the US in the next 10 days.

Lamb on the Northeast Atlantic « Climate Audit 2006